Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Every headline showed that.

And so what's often happening, I describe it in the five resets.

And I would actually like look at those headlines and either roll my eyes or laugh because I was like, that is so not how their brain works.

I talk about how your brain is like a dam and

Your brain is built like a dam.

And so right now, many people are feeling worse than they ever were.

And so what happens is,

When you are going through an acute crisis, you shore up your internal reserves.

And it's years after the pandemic, because we were promised after the pandemic, oh, everything's gonna be normal.

Once that crisis passes is when the dam breaks.

Everything's gonna be great.

You feel psychologically safe.

But that's not how the brain works.

Your defenses come down and the dam breaks.

Every headline showed that.

And I would actually like look at those headlines and either roll my eyes or laugh because I was like, that is so not how the brain works.

I've seen this over and over with my patients with cancer, for example.

They get the diagnosis of cancer.

Your brain is built like a dam.

They're seeing their oncologist, radiation therapist.